The New Mutants #48 [Direct]

(February 1987)

Ashes of the Heart (Table of Contents: 1)

New Mutants / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Chris Claremont (credited)

Pencils

Butch Guice (credited as Jackson Guice)

Inks

P. Craig Russell (credited)

Colors

Glynis Oliver (credited)

Letters

Lois Buhalis (credited as Buhalis); Tom Orzechowski (credited as Orzechowski)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Illyana screwed up! Royally!!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avengers (mainstream): Tigra [Greer Nelson] (mainstream) (flashback)
The Avengers (Earth-8720): The Black Knight [Dane Whitman] (Earth-8720) (cameo flashback); Captain America [Steve Rogers] (Earth-8720) (flashback, also corpse); Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau] (Earth-8720) (flashback); Hawkeye [Clint Barton] (Earth-8720) (cameo flashback); Hercules (Earth-8720) (flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (Earth-8720) (flashback); Mockingbird [Bobbi Morse] (Earth-8720) (cameo flashback); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (Earth-8720) (cameo flashback)
Fantastic Four (Earth-8720): Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (Earth-8720) (flashback); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (Earth-8720) (flashback, death); Thing [Ben Grimm] (Earth-8720) (flashback, corpse)
Freedom Force (Earth-8720): Blob [Fred Dukes] (Earth-8720) (flashback); Pyro [St. John Allerdyce] (Earth-8720) (flashback)
New Mutants (mainstream): Karma [Xi'an Coy Manh] (mainstream); Magma [Amara Aquilla] (mainstream); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa] (mainstream); Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair] (mainstream)
New Mutants (Earth-8720): Cannonball [Sam Guthrie] (Earth-8720); Karma [Xi'an Coy Manh] (Earth-8720) (picture, deceased); Mirage [Dani Moonstar] (Earth-8720); Sunspot [Roberto Da Costa] (Earth-8720) (picture, deceased); Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair] (Earth-8720) (picture, deceased)
X-Men (Earth-8720): Ariel [Kitty Pryde] (Earth-8720) (picture, deceased); Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (Earth-8720) (flashback); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (Earth-8720) (picture, deceased); Wolverine [Logan] (Earth-8720) (flashback)
Brightwind (Earth-8720); Brightwind (mainstream) (picture); Lila Cheney (Earth-8720); Stevie Hunter (mainstream); Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr] (mainstream); Greer Nelson (Earth-8720)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream; Marvel : Earth-8720

Synopsis

Karma, Magma, Sunspot, and Wolfsbane find themselves in the future and hunted by Sentinels. They team up with future versions of Cannonball and Mirage to rescue Lila. Meanwhile, Stevie tries to convince Magneto that the New Mutants must be dead.

Reprints

• in Titans (Editions Lug, 1976 series) #114 (10 juillet 1988)
• in New Mutants Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #2 (2021)